So, if I have a ten gallon, with one betta and 5 ghost shrimp, I can get 5 more shrimp and still be ok?

the real anser is mabey it all depends. 1 shrimp per gallon is about the same as one inch per gallon.

if you are filtered and your tank has the floor space of a normal 10 gallon standard then you can put about 10 full grown female ghost shrimps in it most likely *if you get agressive macros weed them out* if you have decorations you can get away with almost 20 of them full grown *depending on size of decoration etc.*

ghost shrimp aren't like fish they don't need alot of room if you stock slowly as opposed to just walking down to walmart and saying gimme 20 *like i did* then you will be able to find your and thier own personal balance.

for example with my tank. i looked at my violet goby and saw that 3 ghosts weren't handling his left overs as fast as i wanted. so i looked at the floor space and said "wow i got room for like 20" so i went to walmart saw a fresh shipment of young ones looked at the guy working there and the conversation went like this no joke.
me: hi i would like 20 ghost shrimps please.
him: ? que honda?
me: grrrr... baennte camarons porfavor sinor
him: f*** ju wan twenty chrimps man?
me: yup . mushas grasias sinor.
....
after about 3- 5 minutes of catching and trying to count the right number of shrimps we both looked at each other started laughing and agreed 15 was a good number and the lady at the cash register could count them out if she didn't believe.

there were 23 in the bag.

*all spanish is spelled phonetically for those who can't handle that tuff i learned to speak it not spell it.*

yeah all of them are alive. minus one who was attacked by either other shrimps or got attacked by the mollies in the tank right after a molt.

in the last month i have had 4 females get berried so far none of the first ones litter survived :( i think the second female in the tank 2.5 hospital ate them or a lack of food starved them. since then i have been adding very small amounts of super crushed flake as i have read that works for them. any way experimenting on how to get thier young to live. i have a small journal going on at aquariacentral.

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